Review di Food di Italia
Well, now that I know Maria is reading eagerly to find out about our opinions on food in Italy, I intend to give spotty updates on our culinary endeavours. The first begins... NOW!
Saturday, July 9
We ate dinner at quaint pizzeria about 3 blocks from San Marco square. We both had pizza and it was terrific. We discovered that when you order a pizza here, the intent is that one pizza feeds one person. Thus we both had a pizza. Zing! Natalie had a pie with mushrooms, artichokes, ham, and tomatoes. I had one with a spicy salami similar to pepperoni and it was great. Nothing terribly special this night, but the location and the atmosphere were unbeatable. The picture below is entitled "Natalie con Pizza Veneziano".
Sunday, July 10
Dinner tonight was at a small trattoria called "Aciugheta" in the sestiere di castello. (They call the different neighborhoods or boroughs here in Venice, sestieres. The most famous is San Marco). Anyway, we started off with antipasto "cichetti", as recommended to us by Epicurious.com. It was a collection of fish and meats in a rather interesting presentation on a single plate. There were about 7 different cichetti on the place. We enjoyed all of them, save for the one whole deep fried fish which we were expected to eat as-is. Bones and all. We gave it the good old college try, but it was ... bad.
The main courses were much better. We both had spaghetti. Mine came with clams, and Nat's came with the far more interesting cuttlefish. Cuttlefish is apparently a squid relative, and the sauce was made from the ink of the cuttlefish. It was very rich, quite tasty, and all black like the New Zealand rugby team. The wine complimented things perfectly (we are in Italy).
Lots of post-dinner walking and gelato rounded out a perfect evening. Now we're blogging with cocktails that cost 10 euros. blach! Of to Como tomorrow, but we hope to stop in some smaller towns along the way. It should be about 3.5 hours driving time... 1 hour if Natalie drives. Love you all...
CC and NC
posted by Chris @ 5:14 PM
5 Comments:
What, no pictures of the biggest parking garage in Europe? Just kidding. Awesome pictures . . . glad to hear that you like Venice so much and that the car is so nice. Ciao!
Wow, you guys are a lot more daring with your food than I would be! Cuttlefish spaghetti sounds... like something I wouldn't touch with a 10 ft. pole.
Love reading about all your adventures... Maybe Josh and I will be able to have a European adventure ourselves one day. In the meantime, we'll let you spend the money and we'll just read. ;)
Glad your trip's been fun and safe - look forward to seeing you both (and the car) when you get back. :)
MMMmmm - Italian words.
The gastronomic ou tour of Italy sounds absolutely brilliant.
I'm hoping you get to wash everything down with a nice chianti or lambrusco or something red made from grapes.
Keep enjoying the tour de stomaco vuoto.
Peace and love
Jeff
Thanks for the food info and other news! I was "starved" for an update by the time you posted your most recent entries. Art museums? Romantic hotels? Just get thee to a Starbucks so you can fill us in! :)
Venice looks AMAZING. Like a dream! Thanks for including pictures. That's quite a pie you've got there, Nat. Glad there are no more shots of you in pants with umbrellas -- it looks beautiful and summery. Love you guys!
WOW! Looks like you guys are having an amazing time. Thanks for sharing it with all of us stuck at work :)This helps my day dreaming - and makes me hungry!
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